DatUtil issues

[taulore]

I know this is possibly not the right place to ask this but

Can anyone out there help me please.

I am trying to use Datutil to create a datfile by scanning a directory. I have tried what I believe to be the correct method but am having no joy.

I am running datutil through CMD.EXE on a win8 pc and the method stated in the Datutil txt file which I have been trying is

Datutil -f romcenter2 <rom path>

It just doesn't seem to create the Datutil.dat file.

[.mad.]

First you need to ZIP all your game files into separate archives.

game1.zip
game2.zip
game3.zip....

then type

datutil "c:\the name of the directory to scan"

>example
>datutil "D:\AmstradMania v7\crc"

you must use the quotes round the dir name.

once the dat file has been created (CMPRO dat is default)
>datutil datutil.dat

will convert it to Romcenter

If you intend to import the RC dat into GameBase you need to edit the Header version number from 2.50 to 2.00.

[taulore]

Cheers for the info .mad.

It seems I hadn't put the rom path address into the "" quote marks.

As soon as I did that it worked. Cheers.